Greetings, citizens ~
Prior to releasing the launcher, we want to do a public beta to help ensure it will work correctly across all machines. The official testers have been invaluable in finding bugs with it -- and some minor ones remain -- but the comparatively small hardware/software sample size makes it impossible to be confident enough for a full release.
That said, I would be most appreciative of any of you who would download and experiment with the launcher. If you encounter any issues, please post them below with as much detail as is necessary (os, java, ram, launcher settings, launcher console output, steps to reproduce, screenies, etc). The more testing we have, the better the result!
You will need to run the launcher from the command prompt/terminal to see any debug/error output it may show.
Here are the links for the most recent build (#147):
Enjoy! ^^
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List of current bugs/annoyances:
- Win32 with Java64 installed may not start the game (fixed but not yet verified)
- Settings windows stack and do not preclude interacting with the launcher window behind them.
- Launcher does not distinguish between not having the game downloaded and a broken install.
- Archive branch is visible despite being empty
- FIXED - Multiple identical version numbers (hotfixes) in the list
- Launcher window is resizable after changing users. (unverified bug)
- Launcher crashes/misbehaves if it cannot access the Registry
- Interrupting the autoupdate process can corrupt files.
- FIXED - Users can attempt to launch the game with an invalid custom java path
- FIXED - Unexpected behavior for the memory slider's lower bound (not initial+earlyGen)